Vanity Fair: This simple photograph rating website inspired the ideas behind early versions of both Facebook and YouTube.

Vanity Fair: No matter how hot a person thinks they look, it's probably more unflattering than they suspect.

"Watch out, we got a badass over here."

Vanity Fair: This YouTube trend ignited a conversation about adolescent body image when it was picked up by news media in February this year.

Newsgroup users began placing small tins with logbooks and small items inside of them across the globe for others to find in 2000. Twelve years later, this interactive scavenger hunt game has thousands of participants across the globe.